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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004353 More actions · Answer 1

capn.hector (4/13/2012)
ok on topic: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1283271-392-1.aspx how do you long time posters keep going when you run into people like this. (one thread there are more out there) do you guys just turn it into a game??

Usually, I don't. I move on to someone who actually wants help.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 2

Jeff Moden (4/13/2012)
capn.hector (4/13/2012)
ok on topic: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1283271-392-1.aspx how do you long time posters keep going when you run into people like this. (one thread there are more out there) do you guys just turn it into a game??
Usually, I don't. I move on to someone who actually wants help.

Sometimes I think Sean has the right approach here. 😎

Or maybe that's just feeding the troll. :unsure:

Tom

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 3

L' Eomot Inversé (4/13/2012)
Jeff Moden (4/13/2012)
capn.hector (4/13/2012)
ok on topic: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1283271-392-1.aspx how do you long time posters keep going when you run into people like this. (one thread there are more out there) do you guys just turn it into a game??
Usually, I don't. I move on to someone who actually wants help.
Sometimes I think Sean has the right approach here. 😎
Or maybe that's just feeding the troll. :unsure:

It's his blue glowing sword he uses for troll hunting. I find them funny.

Not sure the OP does.:w00t:

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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CapnHector SSCoach Points: 16143 More actions · Answer 4

SQLRNNR (4/13/2012)
L' Eomot Inversé (4/13/2012)
Jeff Moden (4/13/2012)
capn.hector (4/13/2012)
ok on topic: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1283271-392-1.aspx how do you long time posters keep going when you run into people like this. (one thread there are more out there) do you guys just turn it into a game??
Usually, I don't. I move on to someone who actually wants help.
Sometimes I think Sean has the right approach here. 😎
Or maybe that's just feeding the troll. :unsure:
It's his blue glowing sword he uses for troll hunting. I find them funny.
Not sure the OP does.:w00t:

just seeing what you guys do, im at a point im just going to find humor in it and keep asking the same question. ddl and sample data.

For faster help in answering any problems Please read How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help - Jeff Moden[/url] for the best way to ask your question.

For performance Issues see how we like them posted here: How to Post Performance Problems - Gail Shaw[/url]

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 5

capn.hector (4/13/2012)
SQLRNNR (4/13/2012)
L' Eomot Inversé (4/13/2012)
Jeff Moden (4/13/2012)
capn.hector (4/13/2012)
ok on topic: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1283271-392-1.aspx how do you long time posters keep going when you run into people like this. (one thread there are more out there) do you guys just turn it into a game??
Usually, I don't. I move on to someone who actually wants help.
Sometimes I think Sean has the right approach here. 😎
Or maybe that's just feeding the troll. :unsure:
It's his blue glowing sword he uses for troll hunting. I find them funny.
Not sure the OP does.:w00t:
just seeing what you guys do, im at a point im just going to find humor in it and keep asking the same question. ddl and sample data.

that is about the best that can be done - give it a chuckle and move on.

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
Learn Extended Events

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 6

L' Eomot Inversé (4/13/2012)
Jeff Moden (4/13/2012)
capn.hector (4/13/2012)
ok on topic: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1283271-392-1.aspx how do you long time posters keep going when you run into people like this. (one thread there are more out there) do you guys just turn it into a game??
Usually, I don't. I move on to someone who actually wants help.
Sometimes I think Sean has the right approach here. 😎
Or maybe that's just feeding the troll. :unsure:

hehe I wish I could remember where that came from. Somebody posted that here a year or two ago and it was so funny I kept it around.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 7

Evil Kraig F (4/13/2012)
Some days, this helps:

Or this (my drink of choice tonight)

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398882 More actions · Answer 8

Jeff Moden (4/13/2012)
capn.hector (4/13/2012)
ok on topic: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1283271-392-1.aspx how do you long time posters keep going when you run into people like this. (one thread there are more out there) do you guys just turn it into a game??
Usually, I don't. I move on to someone who actually wants help.

Ditto. No time for silly p*****g matches. If I'm learning from a problem, I'll keep going, but if it's just argumentative or weird (this one seems to be the second), I just stop posting in that thread.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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Revenant SSC-Forever Points: 42467 More actions · Answer 9

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/13/2012)
Evil Kraig F (4/13/2012)
Some days, this helps:
Or this (my drink of choice tonight)

The image does not display in my IE9. Or was ite meant to be a Zen koan?

Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 10

Revenant (4/14/2012)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/13/2012)
Evil Kraig F (4/13/2012)
Some days, this helps:
4 bit
Or this (my drink of choice tonight)
The image does not display in my IE9. Or was ite meant to be a Zen koan?

Displays in my IE9 running on a 64 bit laptop ...

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Ron

Please help us, help you -before posting a question please read[/url]
Before posting a performance problem please read[/url]

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 11

Revenant (4/14/2012)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/13/2012)
Evil Kraig F (4/13/2012)
Some days, this helps:
Or this (my drink of choice tonight)
The image does not display in my IE9. Or was ite meant to be a Zen koan?

displays fine in my Firefox 11 (32 bit XP Pro). It looks like an empty tequila bottle with a very poor quality cork, but I'm not a tequila man so maybe cork standards are different.

Tom

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 12

Grant, I keep meaning to ask you. What *is* that avatar you use?

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 13

The Dixie Flatline (4/15/2012)
Grant, I keep meaning to ask you. What *is* that avatar you use?

Looks to me like a glass with water. Maybe 'his cup runneth over'...

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 14

Thanks, Gail. I had to squint my eyes to see it.

Is the glass half empty? Half full? Or twice as big as it needs to be?

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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 15

The Dixie Flatline (4/15/2012)
Is the glass half empty? Half full? Or twice as big as it needs to be?

I think someone needs to turn the tap off.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass